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...SEVIS database contains information about international students and scholars’ visa statuses, residences and programs of study at the University. As the first national computerized database of the United States’ foreign scholars, it enables—and requires—colleges, universities and trade schools throughout the country to update foreign students’ records electronically, and replaces the old paper-based system...
Beginning Aug. 1, consular offices will be required to hold face-to-face interviews with all visa applicants, student or otherwise—an added step that threatens to bog down an already backlogged process, Ladd says...
...most subtle, tentmaking embodies St. Francis' edict: "Preach the gospel at all times; when necessary, use words." ("Be someone's friend, not an Amway salesman," paraphrases one veteran.) But the sometimes clandestine status can breed bad habits. Visa bans turn many Evangelicals, usually straightforward to a fault, into truth stretchers, if only at the customs desk. They use encrypted e-mail and code words or smuggle Bibles. "Some," says a Christian minister in Morocco, "seem to have been inspired by the book of James, verse 007." It is not really their fault, says the leader of one mission, contending...
...girl from Seoul, South Korea encountered a multitude of problems because she only received a tourist visa from the government, despite having registered for full-time enrollment at the Summer School...
Upon arriving in Detroit, she was sent back to Seoul for lacking a student visa, but could not initially obtain one because American customs officials had confiscated her I-20 form, which is required in exchange, Queen said...